Quotes About Wisdom

Never let the truth become your enemy.

Allow planning and discernment to take the needed amount of time.

You have to learn and keep learning.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves...far distant in time...speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.

There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.

Knowing how to apply maxims cannot be reduced to, or derived from, the acceptance of those or any other maxims.

But when a person has done the right thing, we cannot then say that he knew how to do the wrong thing, or that he was competent to make mistakes.

He applies in his practice what Aristotle abstracted in his theory of such practices.